Ristorante americano · Noble Square · 53 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the calamari from our 100 Best list: Put this calamari stuffed with chicken and pork forcemeat and flavored with Korean chilies and peanuts squarely in that camp.
Locale per hamburger · River North · 116 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the El Pirata from our 100 Best list: The spiked shakes at this L.A. import are so thick, so boozy and so frickin’ delicious that even the burger-bored should get in here for these alone.
1612 W Division St (at N Ashland Ave), Chicago, IL
Nuovo ristorante americano · Wicker Park · 81 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the The Bedford Bloody Mary from our 100 Best list: The kimchi actually belongs in this drink. It adds a pleasant background of earthiness to what otherwise would be just tomato juice and spice.
2421 N Milwaukee Ave (at W Fullerton Ave), Chicago, IL
Cocktail bar · Logan Square · 110 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Oaxacan old-fashioned from our 100 Best list:This cocktail is not on the menu, but it’s a Paul McGee classic available by request.
1531 N Damen Ave (at N Wicker Park Ave), Chicago, IL
Ristorante di taco · Wicker Park · 571 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the michelada from our 100 Best list: We know it contains Tecate, Cholula and Valentina hot sauces, and Maggi. Oh, and we’re certain it's delicious, alleviates hangovers & might just cure cancer.
11 E Walton St (at Waldorf Astoria Chicago, 3rd Floor), Chicago, IL
Pub ristorante · Near North Side · 37 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Bloody Margaret from our 100 Best list: This gin-based Bloody is fragrant with thyme, lightened with cucumber and brought down to our level with a good old beer back.
1475 W Balmoral Ave (btwn Clark St & Glenwood Ave), Chicago, IL
Nuovo ristorante americano · Andersonville · 38 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the maatje herring shot from our 100 Best list: Make way, tequila shots. We want to start every meal slurping a piece of sweet pickled herring followed by a shot of genever.
Locale per barbecue · Bucktown · 119 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the fruit shortcake from our 100 Best list: This sweet-as-pie biscuit-and-fruit concoction (the fruit varies with the season) is good enough to go toe-to-toe with any of the fancier takes.
Time Out Chicago: Try the Sweet-potato pie from our 100 Best list: It’s the most obvious treatment of all that wins us over: straight-up sweet-potato pie, as ideal as it is simple.
Gelateria · East Ukrainian Village · 87 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the gianduja gelato from our 100 Best list: Every flavor, every time, Jessie Oloroso kills it. But when her shop is out of this knee-bucklingly rich chocolate-hazelnut flavor, it nearly kills us.
Time Out Chicago: Try the cinnamon bomb from our 100 Best list: Why call this (admittedly tame-looking) pastry a “bomb”? Because this moist, cinnamon-dusted cake is unexpectedly addictive. And that’s dangerous.
Nuovo ristorante americano · West Town · 552 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the chocolate bouchon from our 100 Best list: Stephanie Izard successfully incorporates foie gras as a decadent marshmallow “fluff” alongside a moist chocolate cake.
Time Out Chicago: Try the Oatmeal-chocolate bread from our 100 Best list: There was nothing molecular or fancy about these thick slices of homey, chocolate-studded cake. There was, though, something special about them.
1220 W Webster Ave (btwn Magnolia & Racine), Chicago, IL
Bar Caffè · North Side · 88 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the pineapple upside-down cake from our 100 Best list:Sandra Holl turns a dessert most associated with the Midwest, the ’70s and canned pineapple rings into something lovely and sophisticated
619 W Randolph St (at N Desplaines St.), Chicago, IL
Nuovo ristorante americano · West Loop · 127 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the frozen cucumber mousse from our 100 Best list: Executive pastry chef Bryce Caron turns a humble cucumber into this creamsicle-like dessert, which is unexpectedly rich & surprisingly refreshing
Nuovo ristorante americano · Old Town Triangle · 64 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Chèvre fritters from our 100 Best list: Thanks to pastry chef Elissa Narrow, now every time we bite into a fritter, we expect it to ooze with liquefied Prairie Fruits Farm goat cheese.
Negozio di dessert · Logan Square · 22 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Salted-caramel marshmallows from our 100 Best list: Katherine Duncan takes her masterful caramel and folds it into her light marshmallows sweetened with wildflower honey.
Ristorante vietnamita · Uptown · 86 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Rau câu from our 100 Best list: Stiff coconut custard flavored with grassy pandan leaf and poured into a skinned coconut shell to set.
Time Out Chicago: Try the Irish bread pudding from our 100 Best list: These slices of moist bread pudding are griddled, giving the pudding crispy, caramelized edges—and giving you a reason go take a nap.
Nuovo ristorante americano · Bucktown · 99 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the basque cake from our 100 Best list: Thankfully, this warm cake with a golden crust and soft middle is the only dessert pastry chef Amanda Rockman keeps on her menu year-round.
Time Out Chicago: Try the ham and cheese fondue from our 100 Best list:Take a croque-madame, increase the cheese tenfold, melt it in a crock, fold in ham, put the egg on top and use the bread on the side, for dipping.
Wine bar · Streeterville · 13 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the ricotta and honeycomb from our 100 Best list: This ricotta is richer and smoother than we could have imagined (it’s whipped with olive oil), paired with sweet honeycomb and grilled bread.
2300 North Lincoln Park W (at W Belden Ave.), Chicago, IL
Ristorante di pesce · Lincoln Park · 29 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the Forest mushrooms from our 100 Best list: Founding chef Laurent Gras left. Michelin took away two stars. When we ate this wild and brooding mushroom dish at L2O, we couldn’t have cared less.
Ristorante americano · Gold Coast · 94 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the roast carrot and avocado salad from our 100 Best list:Crunchy with seeds, redolent with spices and enhanced with crème fraîche, this is proof there is such a thing as salad evolution.
2624 N Lincoln Ave (at W Wrightwood Ave), Chicago, IL
Cocktail bar · Lincoln Park · 90 consigli e recensioni
Time Out Chicago: Try the blue-cheese-and-mushroom beignets from our 100 Best list:We went for the cocktails. We came back for these meltingly rich puffs.